A banded sea snake swimming freely. Some species of venomous sea snakes lost their ability to see in color when the moved from the land to the ocean about 110 million years ago. “The ancestral snake, ...

Sept. 4 (UPI) --Scientists have found a tropical sea snake that draws oxygen through the top of its head when diving underwater. According to the latest analysis, the blue-banded sea snake uses a ...

New Caledonia residents succeed in educating people to respect their sea kraits. Here a visitor drops to the ground to admire a “tricot raye” crawling ashore for a rest. “That’s OK,” she said. “He ...

There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

Although sea snakes do breathe air like us, they're certainly able to stay underwater for long periods of time. Scientists now believe that at least part of the secret may lie in a gill-like network ...

A marine snake has evolved to see colour after losing the ability millions of years ago. It is one of only two reptiles known to have regained this type of colour vision. Over the last 25 million ...

Humans use a snorkel and fish have gills. Now researchers have found a sea snake which uses a complex system of blood vessels in its head to draw in extra oxygen when it dives and swims underwater.

Banded sea krait Banded sea krait is a part-time swimmer. It hunts in water but comes to land to rest or lay eggs. Moves slowly in the sea, but it knows what it’s doing. Its bite is strong, though ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

There’s nothing quite like a hungry baby. For this mother eagle, mealtime means turning to the water for a tasty snake treat. The video begins with the mother eagle scanning the environment for ...